Historical decoding in accordance with signal interference cancellation (SIC) or joint processing may reduce the amount of data that is re-transported across a network following an unsuccessful attempt to decode a data transmission. In one example, historical decoding is performed in accordance with interference cancellation by communicating information related to interfering data (rather than information related to serving data) following a served receiver's unsuccessful attempt to decode an interference signal. The information related to the interfering data may be the information bits carried by the earlier interfering data transmission or parity information (e.g., forward error correction (FEC) bits, etc.) related to the earlier interfering data transmission.